At the moment the map on shows on single post pages.
I am hoping to shortly add the option of being able to show it automatically at category and archive level too.

If you are comfortable editing your theme’s templates, you could add the following bit of code to your category template (works best above all the posts) which will show a single map with markers for all the posts on that page.

I installed my blog 3 years ago, yet awaited a plugin such as WP Geo. My blog is mostly focused on geoscience-related topics, and for high literary impact, I was seeking a plugin that would indicate localities on the planet Earth for which I wanted to blog about. And WP Geo does this. Installation was easy, hassle-free, and worked “out of the box” the first time.

To put it simply – sweet!

(PS: I would rather that the map does NOT appear at the category and archive levels – so when and if you update WP Geo, please allow us endusers to select those levels of map viewing as an option.)

I really love the simplicity you’ve built into this plugin! I’m using it for a travel blog this summer. For me it would be perfect if the map could appear on the front page. That way friends and family could see where I was without having to click.

It might be nice to be able to set the pixel size, and zoom level of the map, but that would just be icing on the cake.

Hey, Ben … I’m trying to use this on a new site I just started, geophlog.net. It’s not inserting the map for me. I’m using the WordPress.com Monotone theme for photologs and Akismet, but nothing else plugin or theme-wise. Any ideas? Maybe some of the stuff in Monotone is slagging it.

Checked out your web site. The map code all seems to be there OK but for some reason it is not writing the <div> (where the map will appear) into your post.

Try deactivating and reactivating the plugin. Then in the WordPress admin go to the WP Geo Settings and check that ‘Show Post Map’ is set to either ‘top’ or ‘bottom’. Save these settings (even if they are already selected) and see if that works.

PS. I have just released another minor update of the plugin which allows you to include the map within your post content instead of just at the top or bottom using [wp_geo_map].

Great plugin. I am having the same “issue” as Alig. It would be great to have the option for the category and archive level. Would this also make the map visible on the “recent posts” level? That would also be a nice feature. At the moment I have my site on “recent posts” and what I get is a nice 300px white area where the map should be, for every post. Not really very fluid. :\

Also, I tried donating, but all the button does is bring me to the PayPal site. What info should one use?

This is great!!! Thank you very much.
I just copied & pasted the address (even in Japanese it’s ok), I have the map on the post! So easy to add a map!
First I thought it would be nice to show a small comment on the map by clicking the point, but on the second thought, it’s better to write it in the article to make it seachable. So I’m using this nice plugin as it is (except the default zoom, cause my country is small).
Thank you so much again.

Very nice PlugIn, but I have some feature-requests:
1. Is it possible to add the new “More…” function to the map, so pictures from panoramio and wikipedia articles will be visible in the map..
2. It would be fine if the standard location can be changed (actually it is london)
3. The new function “Google Earth” will be a great feature for Windows users, because the plugin is available for IE6, IE7 and Firefox 2+ only on Windows-PCs… (http://www.google.com/earth/plugin/examples/mapsapi/)

With the [wp_geo_map] shortcode, can I specify type of map (terrain, hybrid) and other features like zoom level? I will need different maps on a per post basis that can override the admin default.

Hmm, and how about displaying an overlay/ position from a specific kmz? That way, one KMZ and it’s markers can be …hmm wait, the current posts’ marker is not in the file. It would be better to load the kmz, and display that part to be discussed in the post…

Yes please!
This will make WP Geo very useful for my purposes. I’m planning to use WP Geo with the event’s calendar plugin and there by showing where the event is.
A very useful way to navigate workshops and events for an international venue.

Fantastic Plugin! Landed on this website by pure luck, and I’m very happy with this tool. Congratulations!

However, I have 2 questions:
– how to add a black borderline to the map?
– how to delete the “zoom bar” (at least the long one) on the left side? When I reduce the map height to 200, for example, the zoom bar pops out of the map.

Thanks for your comment. My next release of the plugin (literally just about to upload) will have a few small improvements, one of which is I have added a ‘wp_geo_map’ class to each map’s div tag so they can be styled with your theme’s stylesheet.

I’ve added a ‘wp_geo_map’ class to the divs containing the Google Maps so you can now create a class in your theme’s stylesheet to alter the appearance of your map such as adding a border, alignment, margin etc.

This has also enabled me to add some default styles to solve issues created by some themes (such as the Colourise theme) whereby all images within the map would by themed to have background colours and borders. I now override theme styles for images within the map div tag to always have no border, padding or background colour.

thanks for the great plugin. i would really appreciate the feature you named above. especially if you could add a sidebar widget with a map that displays all post entries and when you click on a pin you jump directly to this post. when could we see a first version of this?

Multiple maps on a page would be handy, as we play on three grounds, and I can display all three on one page (or use a page tabs plugin to make it look like three), but that’s a minor niggle.

What I’d find really useful, is (a) the ability to plan a route from or to my marker point and (b) to override the default size setting. I could then insert a smaller map on a post (floated right, using css), showing visitors how to get to away games, but still having the 100% map for our home venues.

I just noticed one strange thing… When loggin into WP(MU) backend – it contacts maps.google.com – maybe for checking API key, maybe for something else as well.
This degrades the overall performance of WP(MU) backend, I mean loading speed, especially on WPMU systems.

Can something be done to avoid loading data from maps.google.com when logging into backend?

1. Show all locations easily – Create a companion plugin/settings so you can embed a map on any page/post/category/etc, and specify which category to show. I would want to create a wordpress Page called “hotels”, and then embed the map for all posts that have been put in the “hotels” category.

2. Set the zoom level of the embedded group map above. Currently when i insert the PHP to display it is on a very zoomed in level, but I would want to show a world/country view.

3. Allow for custom markers

4. Make markers clickable and link to the original post.

If the above 4 could happen I would absolutely be in love, and a donation would be coming your way. Please let me know if I can help in testing.

No template tags to do this at present but I will shortly be launching an updated version of the plugin – I’ll try address this then. You may be able to get it to show using the <?php WPGeo::categoryMap();?> in your templates but I haven’t tested this

The updated plugin will also allow you to add a map widget to your sidebar which will display all locations from posts on the current page.

I’ve been having a lot of fun playing around with both Wordpress and WPGeo. I think the two together will make a difference in the world of emergency response here in LA County – see http://gis.lacounty.gov/eGIS

Your plug-in, along with GeoMashup, are both easy to use right out of the box.

Quick questions/comments.

1. When I enable WPGeo, it starts output GeoRSS (sweet!). However, this appears to disable the capability of many of the outside readers to read my blog (not so sweet).

2. Is there a way to place the map inside the body of the post, not just at the bottom? GeoMashup allows this, but its a bit clunky.

3. GeoMashup allows a kml file that has been added as an attachment to a post to be automatically displayed – this is pretty cool – would love to see it here too, especially polygons and lines.